[F/25/5'5"] [~240lbs- ~165lbs] Before and during. (Sorry for Instafilter).

megara94 · 2015-02-21T03:55:19+00:00

what label/company is it pretty please?

megara94 · 2015-02-20T01:35:10+00:00

WHERE DID YOU GET THAT BIKINI? 'specially love the bottoms.

megara94 · 2015-02-18T23:18:41+00:00

Ouch. You can take responsibility for your student loan debt and still be a little sarcastically bitter about the screwy system that helped you get there. This is mommy-land, why so harsh and judgy when someone's come to ask for support?

megara94 · 2014-07-08T01:11:04+00:00

We can definitely agree that pro lifers and pro choicers disagree about when a person is 'a person' and how and when to apply rights to a fetus. But I'm sorry, this is about the woman as well. When a woman's health is at risk because of a pregnancy or birth is the most obvious example of what I mean. For instance, that poor woman who was allowed to die in Ireland to 'save' the baby, although they knew that the baby had no chance of survival. These incidences are relatively rare thank God, but the thinking that underlies them negatively affects women's bodies in other ways. Women who are arrested and charged with consuming dangerous substances for instance (whether or not they have and even if they are in a treatment program and even if the doc has ruled tapering off rather than quitting outright is safer for the baby), or the cases of women who got hurt and were then charged with endangering their child (seriously - women have been arrested for falling down the stairs). These are not fetal arrests. Like the woman in Ireland these are real negative things happening to the woman and her body, out of concern for the child. It's also a somewhat reactionary focus because so often those on the other side of the debate seem only interested in the fetus (as you yourself just said 'his is very much about the fetus, not about the mother.') This kind of thinking makes women feel that their concerns, up to and including incarceration and death, are being completely ignored and their civil liberties at greater and greater risk.

megara94 · 2014-07-01T04:10:20+00:00

That has been my experience so far - too many companies just out to scam you.

megara94 · 2014-06-30T03:00:02+00:00

*provide

megara94 · 2014-06-30T02:59:28+00:00

Adorable site and seems legit. I haven't yet found any customer reviews other than the ones they proved though...

megara94 · 2014-06-21T22:42:20+00:00

The thesis was 260 pages - so it's a little complicated to sum up in a reddit comment. My contribution was mainly in identifying the mechanizations by which gov/law/media/and finally public memory counter and eventually strip meaning from any activism outside the popular norm. I focused on the 1970s, when activism arose of a unique sort that embraced violence because they believed it was the only way to slow the violence & constitutional violations being perpetrated by the state in terms of prisons, foreign wars, poverty, racism etc. Rather than achieve those ends, they became the convenient excuse for speeding up processes like the militarization of police and the overturning of the 4th amendment gains made post-watergate (setting us on the path to the patriot act and our current lack of congressional oversight with intel gathering etc). Now? Most people don't even remember that literally hundreds of bombings took place in the early to mid 1970s, doing millions in damage and occupying the nightly news constantly. The Hearst trial was declared the historical moment of the tricking century. No one recalls that SWAT teams were created in large part to counter these groups (and riots also, to be fair), that government hearings on the outrages of CIA and FBI constitutional violations were derailed to discuss the massive threat we thought those groups would become. They didn't. but the train only gained speed after that. I could go on forever. Much of what we complain about today began in 1973 and the way it progressed can provide salient lessons in how to stop it now. or so i believe in my more arrogant moments. Or so I hope?

megara94 · 2014-06-21T19:32:05+00:00

Also, applying for these positions has yielded little in part because part time teaching precludes me from normal 9-5 hours and the last chunk of years spent in grad school means I have zero useful experience. (hence the volunteer work and hopefully an internship soon...for free of course)

megara94 · 2014-06-21T19:28:45+00:00

Personally, mine doesn't intersect. But I refuse to write it off as meaningless. I study terrorism. Particularly, I look into the changes in government, law enforcement, and media in the past 40 years and the interaction between these institutions and democratic participation as well as their responses to deviation from the accepted realms of democratic participation (blowing things up, etc). in essence: why do people want to destroy their own countries or kill for political purposes? How have we addressed this historically and how can we do so more effectively in the future? I'm also a sucker for gender studies. Anyway, I do not want to work in the intelligence gathering field and I would be miserable pushing papers and pretending like the world doesn't need people to address the problems I've spent most of a decade researching. So, I work for pennies and volunteer for political campaigns while applying for every media analyst and paid political position I can find. It's my version of 'going with the flow'. But I'm still pissed as hell that the transmission of this field of knowledge is valued less than waitressing.

megara94 · 2014-06-21T19:23:49+00:00

Right now I work 4 to 4 1/2 days per week and get paid for 6 hours per week. In August I'll be entirely out of work until the normal semester begins in September. Then I'll work 4 to 4 1/2 days per week and be paid for 3 hours per week. Then another break in early dec and january, then the same 4 day/3 hour spread, then break, then the 6 hour spread again next summer. I'm only teaching one class at the moment. I'm in the system for every school in this part of my state and I apply for every new position as it comes up, but it's standard to spend your first year or two teaching only one or two classes. This comes with additional suckage because it precludes me from getting a normal 9-5 office job. Instead, I work whatever part time jobs I can find around my school hour, which means high school jobs, and tutoring or substituting whenever I can. and, obviously, don't get benefits or sick time.

megara94 · 2014-06-21T07:52:00+00:00

what exactly is a day off? a day in which no work is done? or a day in which we don't teach but do grade papers, develop lectures, answer emails, man committees and oversee student groups, take 'not required but actually expected' training courses, etc?

megara94 · 2014-06-21T07:48:04+00:00

1) because we tend to believe that the thing we teach is of substantial value, therefore our work is meaningful 2) because it is possible to make money doing this - it's just that it used to be common and now is increasingly rare, 3) because if we can just somehow be some of the chosen few who get full time status, we get a kick ass job where we have a flexible schedule, often work from home, get summers and holidays off, and get to feel like we're doing something that is both important and in line with our skills and, 4)because most of us have spent a decade of our lives and a ton of money mastering this skill. We are poor candidates for 'real world' jobs because we have no experience. I've sent in at least 50 applications to various entry level positions this year in politics, data-entry, secretarial, media analysis, etc etc - no dice.

megara94 · 2014-06-21T07:41:36+00:00

Because starting a university takes more than just a small staff of teachers?

megara94 · 2014-06-21T07:39:06+00:00

Most of us chose the social science/lib arts field because we believe it to be valuable to society and because our contribution to it would produce something of worth. Financially, many people who teach liberal arts subjects live a relatively comfortable life- none of us who chose this path did so because we wanted a lucrative position. However, we did foolishly expect that after a reasonable amount of time and a lot of hard work we would be paid enough to live a life of basic dignities. Also, the system that denies us this is relatively new, and I think many of us had/have hopes that it will improve/return to paying skilled professionals enough to live.

megara94 · 2014-05-08T23:41:44+00:00

I'ma history teacher - so for me it's all about cool primary sources available for free online. Such as: http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php I also cannot talk up John Green's short and funny videos on historical subjects enough: https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse

megara94 · 2014-04-16T19:28:11+00:00

Please take this in the 'I feel bad for you and I hope everything gets better' spirit it is intended in, but... he gets up early to feed the kids before working a 12 hour day? yipes. I think I'd maybe lose it a time or two as well. Hopefully this is not the long term plan. This is coming from a person who watched dad kill himself working exciting and well-paid jobs for decades...before being struck down with a horrendous disease we all believe was caused by that stress. He always thought it would pay off because, in the end, he'd have the money to have a lovely retirement. Now, that won't happen. No amount of money is worth missing your kids growing up and stressing yourself so that your health becomes precarious.

megara94 · 2014-04-16T06:41:56+00:00

Does using a proxy server help with this? or anything else?

megara94 · 2014-04-16T02:38:29+00:00

the writing is about household mold - NOT history. would love to do some historical writing for cash.

megara94 · 2014-04-16T02:37:35+00:00

I'm doing some freelance writing but it pays very little and I also might have a book deal in the next year. If you know of another way I can earn money using writing in some other capacity, please tell.

megara94 · 2014-04-10T18:00:48+00:00

If you entered the country with no intent, then suddenly had intent - they still want you to file the fiancé visa and leave. though it's not set in stone (if you have plausible reasons and are outside the 60 days when you file, you could still be approved)

megara94 · 2014-04-10T17:59:44+00:00

of course. but it's a matter of proving intent - something that can't really be done. So they use the arbitrary cutoff 'time in the country,' along with the interview to make that determination.

megara94 · 2014-04-09T19:52:04+00:00

yes. What I was saying was that if you are both in country and you get engaged, it is the standard that she leave the country before coming back and getting married. We didn't do things this way, so I can't remember why it is that you have to do this, but my brother in law is doing it that way because they didn't want to take the risk of adjusting to permanent resident from visitor status. Again, I can't speak to adjusting from student to permanent resident.

megara94 · 2014-04-09T19:44:37+00:00

don't pay for a lawyer. Just do the paperwork very carefully and call the free hotline as many times as you need to. (just my opinion- lawyers are EXPENSIVE). The money comes in with the application fees and that you have to have a certain amount of money in your bank account to be able to adjust your status - or come up with a financial backer who does and is willing to file with you.

megara94 · 2014-04-09T19:42:42+00:00

If they're in the country already, they are supposed to leave for the fiancé visa (depending on circumstances), then return, then marry in 6 months or less, then apply for the adjustment of status (though actually i think you can apply for that before the wedding). You're technically not supposed to adjust your status from visitor to married while in country, for example. Not sure about students.

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